Ben Tipple

DIY • 20th April 2022

Live Review: Florence + The Machine, Theatre Royal, London

Stood barefoot in a flowing white dress and matching cape, intimacy brims through Florence’s exhilaration to be back on the stage.

DIY • 6th April 2022

Review: The Linda Lindas - Growing Up

A record that reaches across the generational divide through both its mastery of sound and the universality of its stories.

DIY • 1st April 2022

Review: Pillow Queens - Leave The Light On

Intimacy is replaced here by an urgent yearning for something bigger.

DIY • 9th March 2022

Review: Jenny Hval - Classic Objects

‘Classic Objects’ walks the line between art and humanity, between nature and fabrication, between the real and the conceptual.

DIY Magazine • 4th March 2022

Review: Nilüfer Yanya - PAINLESS

A true representation of its creator; simultaneously delicate, fierce, vulnerable and fiery.

DIY Magazine • 9th February 2022

Review: Shamir - Heterosexuality

The record bounds between unfaltering self-belief and fundamental pain.

DIY Magazine • 4th February 2022

Review: Mitski - Laurel Hell

You can’t help but feel that it’s all one broken brick away from tumbling down, which is exactly why it plays out with such delicate urgency.

DIY Magazine • 28th January 2022

Review: MØ - Motordrome

No longer simply living to survive, MØ is having fun being herself.

DIY Magazine • 7th January 2022

Review: Twin Atlantic - Transparency

It may not be the most polished or serious piece of art to emerge from the pandemic, but it’s impossible to deny the sheer amount of personality and unashamed frivolity bubbling out of ‘Transparency’.

DIY Magazine • 3rd December 2021

Review: No Rome - It’s All Smiles

It cements Rome’s desire to mess with pop convention, and much like his Dirty Hit stablemates serves to further expand any preconceived boundaries of the genre.

DIY • 11th November 2021

Review: Holly Humberstone - The Walls Are Way Too Thin

There’s an expert tenderness to her stories and their delivery.

DIY • 5th November 2021

Review: Snail Mail - Valentine

A record as hopeful as it is bittersweet.

DIY • 22nd October 2021

Review: Biffy Clyro - The Myth Of The Happily Ever After

Eleven tracks that brilliantly capture the turbulence and dysfunction of the past eighteen months.

DIY • 22nd October 2021

Review: Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters

A collection of sun-kissed moments and hazy memories, free from judgement and firmly rooted in place.

DIY Magazine • 6th October 2021

Review: James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart

A record that simultaneously expands on his delicate production and sees him fully embrace his singer-songwriter alter ego.

Rock Sound Magazine • 29th September 2021

Feature: Thrice - The Illusion Of Safety

What happens when one of the most introspective bands on the planet gets locked up for two years? Dustin Kensrue explains the new Thrice record.

DIY Magazine • 8th September 2021

Review: Kacey Musgraves – star-crossed

Even if the message might be built on cliche, in Kacey Musgraves’ delivery there really is a light at the end of the tunnel.

DIY Magazine • 7th September 2021

Live Review: Slam Dunk 2021

With the sun shining for the first time since 2020 (don’t fact check us here) and having survived the unavoidable COVID-forced line-up changes, there’s something truly special about being back at Hatfield House.

DIY Magazine • 26th August 2021

Review: Chvrches - Screen Violence

Much like their complicated relationship with screens - the record also created across the Atlantic during a pandemic - ‘Screen Violence’ marries visceral anger and empowerment. The result is their most euphoric rallying cry to date.

DIY Magazine • 12th August 2021

Review: Meet Me @ The Altar - Model Citizen

Model Citizen’ takes everything that has driven the scene forward and injects an unapologetic - and very welcome - Gen Z spin.